How much does Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation give?

Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $16,156 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (71%), Education (15%), Food & Nutrition (4%).

Who are Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foothills Unitarian Church ($151k), Colorado State University Foundation ($27k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($3k).

Does Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Colorado Gives Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

Where is Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation based?

Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation is based in CO.

Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation

Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$14k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$153kEducation$33kFood & Nutrition$8kHealth$6kHuman Services$5kCivil Rights$5kArts & Culture$4kEnvironment$1kOther$0

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $2k
$10k–50k1 grant · $14k

$250

Median grant

States reached

$99k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Foothills Unitarian Church	$14,000
Food Bank Larimer County	$1,000
Leukemia Lymphoma Society	$300
Individual grant recipient	$250
ALS United Rocky Mountain	$206
March of Dimes	$200
Individual grant recipient	$200

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $360) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$206k · 27 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$206k

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+13%

Still filing today

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SP
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +10%
CS
CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +61%
RM
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC
4× · 2019–2023 · $1k · revenue +16%

Funded once

IC
IMMANUEL CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $1k
TF
The Food Bank for Larimer Countygraduated
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +45%
CG
Colorado Gives DayFirst Fund
one grant, 2019 · $1k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

Alliance for Sustainable Energy Llc

The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…

Science & Tech

Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

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Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment

Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health

Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community for Sustainable Energy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

23/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$177,193Education$28,430Health$3,664Crime & Legal$3,250Arts & Culture$1,800Religion$1,620Food & Nutrition$1,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Northern ColoradoCO15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Briggs-Kerst Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home